Thursday, March 10, 2016

PROBATIONERS OF
INDIAN POSTAL SERVICE, INDIAN TELECOM SERVICE AND P&T BUILDING WORKS
SERVICE CALL ON THE PRESIDENT

Press
Information Bureau

Government
of India

President's
Secretariat

09-March-2016
18:07 IST

Probationers
of Indian Postal Service, Indian Telecom Service and P&T Building Works
Service call on the President

A group of Probationers of Indian
Postal Service, Indian Telecom Service and P&T Building Works Service
called on the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee today (March 09, 2016)
at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Speaking on the occasion, the
President said that the part privatization of Postal and Telecom sector in the
era of liberalization has witnessed drastic changes in technology and
exponential growth of the consumers. If they have to survive in the competitive
world, they have to keep pace with the fast changing Information and
Communication Technology.

The President said that India has
undergone a telecom revolution during the last two decades. The launch of
mobile telephony and faster internet network in India has enabled India tap its
vast digital potential. India is emerging as a fast digital hub. It is the need
of the hour to have best quality telecom and internet services. India now has about
46 crore internet users and 37 crore mobile users. The numbers are likely to
increase exponentially with enhanced levels of education and cheaper rate of
internet and mobile telephony. He expressed hope that the Postal Academy and
National Telecommunications Institute are providing requisite technical and
non-technical inputs to enable the probationers to take up the ensuing
challenges in the postal, telecom and building works sector. They have to work
with professionalism, transparency and integrity to meet the aspirations of
large number of people of India.

The probationers of the Indian
Postal Service are presently undergoing professional training at the Rafi Ahmed
Kidwai National Academy, Ghaziabad while probationers of Indian Telecom Service
and P&T Building Work Service are undergoing their induction training at
National Tele-communications Institute for Policy Research, Innovation & Training,
Ghaziabad.